Classic Fiction (pre-1945)

Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when the world's most celebrated detective is unleashed not merely upon the foggy streets of Victorian London, but across the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sweltering, God-forsaken backwaters of 1930s Mexico, a hunted man runs for his life — not because...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the sun-scorched landscape of rural Ireland, a household is haunted — not by ghosts, but by the lingering, suffocating...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the blazing backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge chronicles the fate of its gentle, raven-accompanied protagonist through...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWidely regarded as the greatest novel in the English language, Middlemarch immerses the reader in the intricate social...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat happens when the greatest literary minds in history turn their attention to seduction? A Literary Guide to Seduction, edited and introduced by Robert...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe finest short fiction of the mid-twentieth century comes alive in Pick of Today's Short Stories 9, a...

Edition: 2nd ImpressionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Tears along folds, now repaired with non-acidic tape. Otherwise structural When Elspeth McGillicuddy witnesses...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on the world's greatest detective in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the last of four...

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Edition: Revised first ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsA hallucinatory journey through fractured time, colonized bodies, and the machinery of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the crossroads of art, identity, and moral reckoning, John Fowles's Daniel Martin chronicles the introspective journey of a successful Hollywood screenwriter who, confronted...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingTwo of the most electrifying novels in the English literary canon are united in this single Chancellor Press volume — Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodAt the height of World War II, a single act of defiance aboard a battered minesweeper sets...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the shadowy underworld of Tsarist Russia, a young man named Yevsey Klimkov is recruited into the secret police, drawn into a web of surveillance, betrayal,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn a story brimming with warmth, longing, and the quiet magic of self-discovery, Jane of Lantern Hill chronicles the journey of young...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingThe halls of Trinity School have never truly been peaceful — but in Beyond the Chocolate War, Robert Cormier returns to their shadowed corridors...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingFew voices in the Victorian literary canon burn with such desperate, luminous intensity as that of Francis Thompson — a poet who transformed personal...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFew writers of the eighteenth century managed to master the novel, the stage, and verse with equal brilliance — Oliver Goldsmith was one such rare exception,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingOne moonlit night on a lonely road outside London, a young drawing master named Walter Hartright encounters a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWhat happens when the gilded promise of a Vassar education collides with the messy, unforgiving realities of adult life? The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingMaster storyteller Jeffrey Archer returns to his most beloved form in To Cut a Long Story Short, a razor-sharp collection of fifteen short...

Edition: ReprintCondition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodFew books have so enchantingly explained the unexplainable as Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, a timeless collection of whimsical origin tales that answers life's most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingWhat happens when one of Britain's most celebrated crime writers turns his sharp intellect loose on the greatest fictional detectives ever conceived?...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodBefore there was a Victorian novel in the truest sense, there was The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club — Charles Dickens's uproarious debut...

'Henry V' is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry...

The sonnets of Shakespeare When this volume of Shakespeare's poems first appeared in 1609, he had already written most of the great plays that made him famous. The 154 sonnets...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor readers navigating the vast, labyrinthine world of William Faulkner's fiction, Who's Who in Faulkner is an indispensable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFor any reader seeking to navigate the rich and often labyrinthine world of D.H. Lawrence's fiction, Graham Holderness's Who's Who in D.H. Lawrence stands...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodOne of literature's most endearing and unlikely masterpieces, The Young Visiters is the remarkable story of the socially ambitious Alfred Salteena —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedRalph Rashleigh is one of the most remarkable and harrowing narratives to emerge from the convict era of colonial Australia...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the rich tapestry of early twentieth-century Paris, Suzanne and Joseph Pasquier immerses readers in the intimate and turbulent lives...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodAt the heart of Victorian England's collision between science and faith stands one of the most extraordinary memoirs ever written — Edmund Gosse's Father and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the centre of a turbulent 1970s British university campus stands Howard Kirk, a radical sociology professor whose calculated charm, political certainty, and voracious...

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